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People often turn to public restrooms as a place to get high on opioids. It has led some establishments to close their facilities, while others are training employees to help people who overdose.

Last week's surface-to-air missile attacks on an Israeli passenger jet sparks fears over potential future attacks against civilian aircraft. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with defense analyst Chris Hellman.

Don't call it empathy, scientists say. These termite-eating ants only retrieve injured comrades on the way home from a hunt, not before. But the hurt ants do recover better at home — to fight again.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., about current congressional negotiations regarding funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to climate researcher Laura Young, also known as "Less Waste Laura" online, about COP29 and what the conference is like on the ground in Azerbaijan.

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Germany, returning to his homeland to lead celebrations culminating in World Youth Day on Sunday. Thousands of young Catholics from around the world have traveled to Cologne to join the celebrations.

Ground Zero responders who developed health problems after working in the ruins of the World Trade Center and sued the city are being offered a settlement totaling $657.5 million. Glen Klein, a former police officer with the New York Police Department's emergency services unit, who was among the plaintiffs, offers his insight.

After 50 years of the Assad dynasty's repressive reign and nearly 14 years of civil war, much of the country is in ruins.

As part of the Juilliard-trained, multiple award-winning Ahn Trio (with her sisters Lucia, pianist and Maria, cellist), violinist Angella Ahn has been...

Engineers at Oroville Dam in northern California are about to start rebuilding two giant spillways that collapsed after heavy rains in February.